Dos Palos water operator salary, 2025
Dos Palos is a city in Merced County. 7 people worked as water operators for Dos Palos in 2025. Fewer than 5 of them worked the full year, so there is no average that wouldn't describe individual people. The official range for its water operator titles runs from $51,189 to $72,280.
What does Dos Palos pay its water operators?
Official pay range1
$51,189 to $72,280
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest water operator title
Average total pay, full-year water operators1
Not reported
- Water operators
- 7
- 2 of them worked the full year
- Starting salary
- $51,189
- bottom of the Operator-trainee range
- Median total pay
- Not reported
- the middle water operator: half earned more, half less
- Average pay rank
- Not reported
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each water operator title at Dos Palos pay?
Each bar is the official range for one title, lowest first. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.1
- Operator-traineefewer than 5
- Operatorfewer than 5
official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
What do water operators earn around Dos Palos?
Average total pay of full-year water operators across Merced County and across California. Dos Palos's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its water operators worked the full year.1
- All employers in Merced County$88,344
- All employers in California$123,726
Full-year water operators across Merced County earned an average of $88,344 in 2025, $35,382 less than the California average.
Pension and health cover at Dos Palos
As reported by the city. Contributions are what the employer paid per full-year water operator, on top of wages.1
- Pension formula
- 2% at 62
- the most common formula among Dos Palos's water operators
- Employer pension contribution
- Not reported
- average per year
- Health, dental and vision
- Not reported
- average paid by the employer per year
Questions about water operator pay at Dos Palos
Why is there no average water operator salary for Dos Palos?
7 people worked as water operators for Dos Palos in 2025, but fewer than 5 of them worked the full year. Every figure on Public Paycheck covers at least 5 people, so none describes one person.
What is the pay range for a water operator at Dos Palos?
The official range across Dos Palos's water operator titles runs from $51,189 to $72,280 in 2025. For comparison, full-year water operators across Merced County earned an average of $88,344.
What pension do water operators at Dos Palos get?
The most common pension formula among Dos Palos's water operators is 2% at 62, as reported by the city.
More salaries in Merced County
- San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority$171,199 average total pay
- Merced$81,994 average total pay
- Atwater$60,374 average total pay
- San Luis Water District$54,021 average total pay
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Sources for the Dos Palos figures
Every person who held a water operator position at Dos Palos at any point in 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only people who worked roughly the full year: those whose regular pay reached at least 90% of the bottom of their official range. Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Averages lead; the median total pay is the middle person's, with half above and half below, and is less pulled by a few people with a lot of overtime. Every figure covers at least 5 people.
- State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: positions, official pay ranges, wages, pension formula and employer contributions as reported by Dos Palos.